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- [Radio] Trans com four seven
contact departure, good day.

(gentle music)

- [Woman] Aerobatics is
unique, it's very special.

- [Debby] It's amazing it's,

that you can make an airplane
do that.

- [Man] What impressed me
the most was what the earth

looks like from upside down,
straight down, straight up.

It's really spectacular.

You have such a feeling of
freedom.

- [Woman] I'm fearless in
general,

but I feel so great in the
air that no, there's no fear.

- [Melissa] For me, being in my
plane

is where I'm comfortable

and once I'm sitting in
that cockpit, it's game on.

- I think we must stop
discussing about women

in aerobatics and men in
aerobatics.

It's just aerobatics.

And I think it make no
difference if you're a woman or

man.

(upbeat music)

(drum music)

- [Woman] I think it's
more or less a men's sport,

don't know why.

- [Man] Women are becoming more
empowered

and they realize they
can do anything as well,

if not better than the men.

So we're seeing far more
women now exposing themselves

to skydiving, aerobatics,
you know, extreme skiing.

And it's a great thing, you
know.

Like, why wouldn't they?

- Hi, I'm Connie Baker.

I'm here with Andrew Wright.

We'll be flying in the Giles
202,

the hottest plane in the
circuit today.

- When anybody experiences
an aerobatics flight

for the first time, it's
something you never forget.

- [Andrew] How you feel, you
feel okay?

- I feel fine.

- [Andrew] Feel great?

Awesome.

Alright, we're gonna
roll up on the up line

and then we're gonna
roll on the down line.

This is kinda weird
because you're not used

to seeing the world come
around from these directions.

You're gonna pick up a little
speed.

And then we're gonna come
out at a pretty fast speed.

Here we go, vertical, probably
seven.

Look left, look left, look left.

(laughing)

Look left, that's two.

Hammerhead coming up.

Three, two, one, pivot.

Looking straight down.

That's a quarter roll,
that's a quarter roll.

Coming up.

(laughing)

- I did it!

(mumbles)

- [Andrew] You did, you're
doing awesome.

How'd you feel?

- I feel great!

- [Andrew] Do you, really?

- Yes!

- [Andrew] Awesome, awesome,
good.

Many people are totally done,
totally get me out of here

right now done.

- First time I got in a plane,

I was, I don't know,
maybe one week old or two.

- First time I flew was
a long time ago now.

I was 14.

- I, in fact, didn't start
flying at all until my 30s.

- I got a ride by somebody in
an airplane

and started flying.

The very next day, actually.

- I started flying when I
was sitting beside my husband

and I was wondering when he
became ill, what happened.

- My grandmother was a pilot.

Her fun thing to do with the
grandkids was

take you up in the Cessna.

I just absolutely fell in love
with aviation and aerobatics

at a very young age.

- Well, I'm third generation
of pilot in my family.

I've flown aerobatics for 35
years

and I've been to, this'll be
my 15th world championship.

I think it's just time.

It's time to retire.

I'm Debby Rihn-Harvey
from the United States.

- I'm Kathel Boulanger and
aerobatic pilot

in the French team.

- My name is Aude, I'm airline
pilot on (mumbles) seven.

- My name's Ann Marie
Ward and I am a member

of the Canadian aerobatic team.

- I'm Dagmar Kress.

I'm on the German aerobatic
team.

- My name is Heike Sauels.

I'm part of the German team.

- My name's Melissa Pemberton

and I'm a professional air show
pilot and display skydiver.

- [Announcer] Here we are,

the 2013 Aerobatic Championship
in Texas.

Our first female pilot
is Debby Rihn-Harvey.

She has flown at the
unlimited level for 31 years

and this is her last world
championship.

Will she finally be able
to take home the title?

(upbeat music)

- You know, I've always
competed against the guys.

Now there's a little
controversy.

My husband used to say
that I learned aerobatics

because a man could do
something that I couldn't do,

so I said "No, that wasn't
true."

I really didn't know that it
was strange to have a woman

as a pilot or a woman racing
cars or anything else.

So I did it all.

It's in my blood.

- Debby Rihn-Harvey is somebody
that I admire very much.

Of course, I have to be neutral
here

because I'm on the jury.

She is an extremely talented
pilot.

She has more experience
than any other pilot

on this airfield at the moment.

There's nobody that has competed
in more world championships

than she has.

She's flown in all the wind
conditions, all the weather,

all the different temperatures,

and of course all kinds
of different airfields.

And that's also an advantage
for her.

And she's flown at this
nationals here for over 30

years.

- My grandfather flew
in the teens and 20s,

was a barn stormer.

My father flew during World War
II

and taught my brothers and I
how to fly

when we were in our early teens.

- We're seeing more women
airline pilots than ever before,

more women in the military
flying aircraft there.

And why we've not seen a
girl within aerobatics?

I don't have a definitive
answer for you,

but we're going our best to
encourage it.

- The number of women pilots in
general

is a real mystery for me.

- The women that compete
at world championships

fly better than the men, quite
often so.

It's not a physical barrier.

I think it's more a case of
women aren't exposed to it

as much.

If more women flew airplanes,

we would have more women
aerobatic pilots.

So it's pretty much as simple
as that.

(engine rumbling)

- Personally, I've seen
firsthand

how challenging it has
been for Melissa to excel

in what is a male-dominated
sport.

There's still traditional
feelings, I think,

within the sport where maybe
males can do this better

than females.

And kind of that stigma
to it, which is not true.

A woman can fly just as good as
a male.

- Rex talks about the ups
and the downs in this sport

and a lot of them for me
have been because I'm a woman

and because I've been
doing this for 11 years

and I'll still be looked at

and "Oh, here's the up and
coming"

because I'm a young girl.

This is all I've done.

So sometimes there'll be a
male that comes into the sport,

will be in it a couple years,

and they're instantly viewed
as being more experienced

than me because they're a man.

And that, to me, is real tough.

- You know, I see myself just
as a pilot.

And being a woman is completely
secondary.

It's not meaningful.

- There were obstacles along
the way,

but I just worked harder to
try to overcome that obstacle

and prove that I could do the
same job.

(airplane revving)

- There's still battles to be
fought

and I think that the women
who have come before us

have fought many of those
battles

and have made it come a
long, long way for women.

And I hope that by doing what
we do,

we can keep on making that
progression.

(dramatic music)

(dramatic music)

(door squeaking)

(engine rumbling)

- I really never thought
I would be interested

in aerobatics, only because
I thought those people

were crazy.

Why would anybody want to do
that

in a perfectly good airplane?

- You get to fly upside
down, in three dimensions.

It's another way of flying.

- You're doing loops, you're
doing rolls.

It's like that thrill of
a roller coaster ride.

- The first aerobatic
maneuver that I ever saw

and felt was a loop.

- The first time I did
spins, I was scared to death.

- I was almost afraid to go
upside down for the first time.

And then there it was, it
was just another maneuver

and another way to fly and it
opened up a whole new world

of flying.

- [Andrew] How's your
seatbelt, is that tight?

- Oh, the bottom one.

- [Andrew] Put a few more on
that

until you're uncomfortable.

- Okay, I'm uncomfortable.

- [Andrew] Okay, that's good.

Here's what we're gonna do.

We're gonna roll upside
down and you're gonna decide

if it's too loose, okay?

- Okay.

- [Andrew] Here we go.

(laughing)

It can't be that loose.

- Oh my god!

- [Andrew] You wanna make it
any tighter or is that okay?

- (laughs) Believe it or
not, I think I got it!

- [Andrew] Alright, alright.

Well, here's a roll, here's a
roll.

Looking straight ahead, here we
go.

That's a roll.

That's the easy roll.

Alright?

- Okay.

- [Andrew] Now I'll talk to
you about that basket roll.

Brace your head.

Brace your head, the elbows
brace really good, right?

Here we come.

Here I go.

(laughing)

- That was awesome!

- [Andrew] Look like you're
having a good time up there.

- Among the women that we have,

today we have a very,
very strong playing field.

I think that everyone
has spent a lot of time

preparing to be here.

Of course, Svetlana has
won top-placing female

more times than I know.

(laughs) So I would probably
put her right at the top

of someone who's gonna
be quite tough to beat.

- Svetlana Kapanina is probably

the finest woman aerobatic
pilot of all time.

She's won the world champion
title I think now seven times.

We've never seen such a
consistent performance.

- Before Svetlana, no woman
had this quality of flight,

as high as a man had.

- For one, she's very, very
talented.

She has a lot of natural
ability.

And then on top of that,
the Russian team has

a fantastic coaching program
that they've developed

over many years to develop
many world championships.

She's part of the system

and I think the combination of
those two,

good airplanes, good
coaching, pure talent,

and natural ability, is what
put her at the very top.

- What makes the top
performers in anything,

what brings them to the top?

And it's always the talent
and an amount of practice,

very hard work at it.

If you only have the talent
and you don't work at it,

you won't get there.

If you only work at it and
you don't have the talent,

you won't get there either.

You need both.

And then you need circumstances
in life

that put you in that position
to take advantage of it.

And she probably has an
ability to focus on it

and stay concentrated.

So I wish her the best for
this year's competition again.

- Svetlana does exactly
what you have to do to win

and she's consistent about it.

In other words, she
comes here well-prepared,

well-practiced, she's very
concentrated,

she does not make mistakes.

She flies the figures extremely
precisely

and she never goes outside the
box.

An aerobatic box is sort
of like a tennis court,

only it's three dimensional.

The box is 1,000 meters square,

but also it's 1,000 meters high.

So it's a cube.

And the pilot must fly
their competition routines,

or what we call sequences,
inside that box.

And to remain inside the
box in order to avoid

getting penalties.

What the judge does, they're
judging figure quality only.

They're watching the pilot fly
the figures

and they're marking him from
zero to 10.

But we have judges also on the
corners,

and they have devices out
there that they sight on,

they look at, and they can
tell when the pilot's out,

and then they call it in.

So what's good about this
system is

it lets the judges totally
concentrate

on the quality of the maneuvers
and the figures themselves.

And then the other judges
take care of determining

whether or not the pilot
is in or outside the box.

(engine rumbling)

I can't emphasize how important
it is

that they observe the limits of
the box.

That's why you'll hear many
discussions among pilots here

about the box.

And they don't like it too much.

- Is anybody not familiar with
that?

- It's just reaction when you
come to land

and you see your results.

You're thinking about the
judges.

And do not well and the do not
(mumbles).

- You can imagine, most of
the aircraft like the one

behind me are typically flying
at over 200 miles per hour

at the bottom of some of the
figures

when they're at their fastest
speeds.

And it doesn't take long to go

through a 1,000 meter distance
at 200 miles per hour.

So it's extremely challenging
for them to do those figures

in the box.

- You are taking two 90s, a
positive,

and minus six, minus seven on
the flight.

And you can have a huge
difference

between the positive and
negative in just a second.

When you are talking about
positive Gs,

it means you are pulling
this like vertically,

you have a feeling that
you are going down.

And all your blood goes
from the head to the feet.

And this is the opposite in
negative Gs.

You have your blood
flowing up to the head.

- [Andrew] Here we go,
you're gonna look forward

and then you're gonna look
left, okay?

Three, two, one, go.

(laughing)

Okay, should have warned
you about that one.

Look left now, look left.

Pick your head up, look left.

Now hold your head up.

Don't let your head fall
back like that again.

- Okay.

- [Andrew] Can't pick it up,
can you?

- No I can't.

We're off the (mumbles) now.

That's the problem with the
heavy G.

Once your head falls back,
you can't pick it up.

Wherever your arms are,
they're staying there

because they weigh three,
four, five, six times

than they weigh normally.

- It's a large range of G,
but you're only pulling it

for a couple of seconds.

So you can just resist against
it by using your muscles

or the negative G by relaxing.

Which we of course, over the
season,

build up our G tolerance.

If you think "I'm sitting
here and I pull 10 Gs"

suddenly that's 10 times my own
weight

going down on my body
and on my internal organs

and everything.

So by tightening your
muscles, you're able to resist

against that, you're able
to help keep the blood out

to your extremities
instead of being pushed in

toward your heart and your brain

and causing what we
call that tunnel vision

or possible grayouts and
blackouts.

- I have experienced a
loss of consciousness

in an aerobatic flight.

And early on in my training,
all I was doing was

inverted turns and then a pull
down.

And I didn't realize you don't
have to do high negative Gs,

it's just sustained
negative Gs and a pull down

that can get you.

And the world went gone.

I was completely unconscious
for a few seconds.

The recovery was frightening

because it took a minute
before I knew where I was.

And then I almost had
the shakes or something.

And I couldn't really control
things for a moment or two.

I was just lucky I was in a
climb

and by the time things settled
down

and I was able to fly again
safely.

(upbeat music)

- When I hear "a woman who
dares",

what that brings to mind
is women who are willing

to go out there and try
something,

go out there and take a chance.

- I'm not even sure if
we are women who dare,

because it is very calculated.

- I think that for women
just to have the courage

to take opportunities when they
have them,

I think that that's a
daring woman right there.

- The only thing stopping
you in life to do things

is really yourself.

Most things happen in life
because you want them to happen.

- I haven't flown in 9
years, about 9 years.

From 1999 to 2008, I haven't
flown.

And the reason why I stopped,

I became more aware of the risk.

Also my brother's wife passed
away in an airplane accident

when his son and my daughter
were

just a little under three years
old.

And when she didn't come
home, that was very hard.

And I just quit.

I couldn't, I got so afraid
to not come home anymore.

- So I'm not afraid
when I see her training,

because everything is well
prepared.

We share the same vision, the
same sport

so I know how it works.

- Mechanical failure, we train
for them.

And maybe the only fear
in the championship

is a mistake, a mistake I will
do.

- I may say "Hey, Melissa",

"look at this thing on the
airplane,"

"it seems to be cracked."

And Lissa will walk up and
go "Oh, you're an idiot."

"This doesn't matter, it's
nothing."

(Melissa laughs)

But for me, it's not nothing.

For me, it's something that if
it breaks,

oh my gosh, what would happen?

Would Melissa go into
a wild spin and crash?

Stuff like that is important to
me,

but at the same time,
she's got the experience.

So when she says it's
fine, I need to back off

and go "Okay, it's fine,
it's going to be fine."

- If you look at the statistics,

aerobatic competition has
a very low accident rate.

And I want to say, I'm
not sure if I'm right,

but I think there have
been only two fatalities

in 40 years of competition.

One was 1976 and the
other one was Vicki Cruse.

- [Announcer] The 27th
World Aerobatic Championship

takes place over a 10 day
period and includes 60 pilots

from 18 different countries.

Each pilot must perform four
programs.

Known, unknown, free, and
four-minute freestyle.

These strong-willed female
pilots will be tested

on their physical abilities,
knowledge, and skills.

Kathel Boulanger has done
a wonderful job preparing

her newly designed pink
Extreme Air XA41 plane

to win this championship.

She's been a member of
the French team since 2004

and has one thing in mind.

Winning first place.

(rock music)

The next pilot preparing
is Aude Lemordant,

also representing France
with her Cap 232 plane.

She finished second in the
last world championship.

Will this be the year
she takes down Svetlana,

the highest ranking
female pilot of all time?

- When I meet people like
Kathel and Aude,

one thing I know is that
they love what they do

and they love flying
and they love aerobatics

more than anything.

- I started aerobatics because
one of my friends took me

for a ride.

I loved that.

Some more hours of flight
for my professional licenses

and I said "Oh, I like
aerobatics",

"so I will pass my second
degree in aerobatics."

And I actually never stopped.

(thunder crashing)

- Well, nothing's been
happening here

because of low cloud, rain,
and winds that are too high.

- We're going stir-crazy, to be
honest.

This weather is terrible.

And it's because there's a
tropical storm or a cyclone

or something coming out
of Mexico right now.

And it's just dumping rain here
in Texas.

- There's supposed to be four
programs

and I guess I might get two.

Which are not the most
selective programs,

because the most selective
ones are the unknowns.

So I don't think we'll
get a chance to do it.

- I haven't flown yet, so
I still have to be thinking

about my program and ready to
fly.

But that's a tough thing to
maintain

when it's just day after
day of sitting around

with dreary weather inside of a
hotel.

(upbeat music)

- [Announcer] Ladies and
gentlemen,

here's our youngest
pilot in the competition,

Melissa Pemberton of the United
States.

She's a very talented young lady

and this is her second world
competition

and she's got big shoes to fill.

Will she be the next Debby
Rihn-Harvey or Patti Wagstaff?

(engine rumbling)

- My dad was a deep sea diver

and we dredged for gold
as kids growing up.

And he would take us for
rock climbing as a family.

I think that my father's
adventurous side

was really passed onto me,

and my mom comes from an
aviation family.

So when I told them
"You know, Mom and Dad,"

"I think I want to become an
airshow pilot"

"and a professional aerobatic
pilot,"

I don't think they were
all that surprised.

(laughs)

I have a couple of little
traditions that I keep up.

I always do my nails so
they're in their red, white,

and blue.

And that's my own little good
luck charm.

I do that for world level and
national level competitions.

- Melissa is a great pilot
and a great aerobatic pilot

and I think if she chooses
to continue at this level

in competition, she'll do very
well.

- What most pilots do that
are serious about competition

is they start at sportsman and
then they work their way up

and gradually gain the
experience and skill

that they need.

That's exactly what Melissa did.

Plus she has a good
aircraft, good support.

- I think that you do have
a sort of relationship

with your airplane.

Me, I always say "Oh, it's our
baby."

I spend way more time with that
airplane

than I do my husband.

- Well, we met actually in
Australia.

Melissa decided to tour
Australia for a year

and bring her aircraft
down from the United States

to Australia to train.

And I met her through a mutual
passion of BASE jumping,

which is jumping off
cliffs with parachutes.

Something that really
attracted me to Melissa

in the first place when we
first met

was just that pure drive that
she has,

to set a goal and then go after
it

and not let anybody get in the
way.

- We're seeing far more
women now exposing themselves

to skydiving, aerobatics,
you know, extreme skiing.

And it's a great thing.

Like, why wouldn't they?

The difference between, say,

the French and the Russian
teams and the other countries,

is they are teams.

They have structure.

They have coaching.

They have spots in their
national aero club.

They have sponsors.

They run training camps.

That is how you win a
championship.

- For many women that are now
still early in their careers,

that have recently entered
aviation as a career field,

they're not at the
point in their lives yet

where they may be able to
afford it.

Certainly that's true in
America.

Now, the subsidized or
the state-supported teams,

that's a little different.

- Many countries, it is a hobby

and so therefore, you
have to weigh your time

and commitment to that hobby

versus making a living
to pay for the hobby

and what your participation
level will be.

- It's very expensive to
become involved in aerobatics

because first of all, you have
to be an experienced pilot

to begin with.

And then there's the
purchase of the aircraft

and the aircraft now are all
in six figures in US dollars.

Two to $400,000.

But then the training of
course is also very intensive

and very expensive.

I will say this, it's
not so expensive to start

in aerobatics, it's only when
you get

into serious competition later.

Not only money, but also a lot
of time.

- I'm on the road from
January through November

with air shows.

And then adding a world level
competition and training

to the mix, it leaves me
with very little spare time.

- It requires a lot of
dedication and a lot of

sacrifice

from other parts of your life
and family.

- [Andrew] One of my
favorite airshow moves.

We're gonna roll up, roll
up, roll up, roll up.

We're going to transition

into an inverted upright flag
spin.

Spinning down, spinning
down, spinning down.

It's kinda wild.

But it's actually gentle, it
really is.

- Okay.

- [Andrew] Always get
(mumbles) about that.

(laughs)

But you might want to
brace you head, okay?

You might want to brace your
head.

There we go, we're going down
right here.

Going down center, coming up
into that.

Pulling up, rolling to
the right, to the left.

Rolling, rolling, rolling to
the right.

You still with me?

- I'm here!

- [Andrew] Here we go.

- Oh my God!

To the left, spin to the left.

Oh yeah.

That's one of my favorite ones.

You can relax, you can relax.

We'll take a break here.

We can edit out all the
breaks, it's no problem at all.

How you doing?

- Doing okay.

That one hit me.

- [Andrew] I thought it might
have.

- We have such skilled men and
women

and as far as figuring out who
the biggest competition is,

oh, that's a tough one.

My competitors are all my
friends, so it makes it extra

fun.

- My biggest competition,
I would say, you know,

the Russians and the French.

- Biggest competitor will
be the Russians for sure.

And I think this year, American
team will be very strong

as well.

- My biggest competitor's
myself.

This is my first world
championship

and my expectation, if I do
really well,

I'll be in maybe the
middle or the lower middle.

- The last world
championship, I was second,

so the girl in front of me is
Svetlana.

Dream is one day to go past her.

- My expectation for
the world championship

is of course the first place,
you know?

- I now go to the competitions,
especially to this one,

I'm so happy to be here.

It's the best thing, I meet
people from all over the world.

I see old friends, I meet new
friends.

And just to be part of
it is really special

and it's a privilege, I think.

Because it is a select group of
pilots

at the world championship.

- [Announcer] This is the
last day of the competition.

The big showdown for female
pilots

to become the 2013 world
aerobatic champion.

Who will take home the title?

(upbeat music)

- [Debby] Any of the
women at any time can win.

- You need teamwork, you need
structure,

you need discipline, drive,
determination.

All of those things to get the
top result.

I don't really see the
difference between men and

women,

especially in aerobatics.

The top women pilots are
fantastic pilots.

(applause)

What does it take to be
a champion in aerobatics?

A lot people talk about,
you know, natural skill.

That is only a very small
part of becoming champion.

- I just feel that I've
gained so much from aviation

and hopefully I've helped to
pave a path

so it's easier for other
young women to get where I am

and beyond where I am.

(applause)

- [Announcer] Ladies and
gentlemen, the winner

of the 2013 World Aerobatics
Women's Championship is

Aude Lemordant.

- Someday a woman will be
the overall world champion,

I believe.

If they hang in there long
enough.

- [Andrew] Tada.

Okay.

(laughing)

(mumbles)

- Oh my gosh.

- Awesome job, awesome job.

- I can't believe I did it.

(calm music)

- [Woman] Oh.

I have slipped the soily bonds
of earth.

And down to the skies on
laughter silver wings.

Sunwards I climb

and join the tumbling
worth of sunsplit clouds.

I've done a hundred things
you have not dreamed of.

Wheeled and soared and swung
high in the sunlit silence.

Hovering, I've chased
the shouting wind along

and flung my eager craft
through faultless holes of air.

Up, up the long delirious
burning blue.

I've topped the windswept
heights with easy grace

where never love or even eagle
flew.

And while with silent lifting
mind,

I've trod the high,
untrespassed sanctity of space,

put out my hand, and
touched the face of God.

- Testing, testing, one, two,
three.

- My name's Melissa Pemberton.

- No, your name is Rex
Pemberton.

My name is...

- But this is...

(laughs)

- That was so surreal!

Oh my god, that was incredible.

I feel like I'm watching
a movie, it's not real.